Dmitry Medvedev said Russia would use nuclear weapons on U.S. and European targets if Ukraine wins the war.
A close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened the use of nuclear weapons on the U.S. if it fails in its invasion of Ukraine.
In a Telegram post on Sunday, Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia, has claimed the Moscow would use nuclear weapons in the event that « Ukraine with its allies » managed to push Russia out of the war-torn country.
« Let’s imagine for a moment that Russia lost and ‘Ukraine with its allies’ won. What for our enemies—the neo-Nazis with their Western sponsors—would be such a victory? » Medvedev wrote, according to a translation posted on X, formerly Twitter, by Anton Gerashchenko, a former adviser to the Ukrainian Department of Internal Affairs.
He goes on to talk about the « collapse of Russia, » in which he describes a « return to the borders of 1991 » when the USSR collapsed following the Cold War.
